自美国和以色列2月开始轰炸伊朗以来，美国石油行业已赚取近1300亿美元利润。据称，同一批公司在2025年同期（当时油价相对便宜）的利润不足470亿美元。
The US oil industry has earned almost $130 billion in profits since the US and Israel began bombing Iran in February. The same companies, according to the , earned less than $47 billion over the same span of 2025, when oil was comparatively cheap.
由于战争导致航运和保险成本飙升，石油公司得以大幅提价。美国最大的两家化石燃料企业——埃克森美孚和雪佛龙——利润激增。根据周五发布的季度财报，埃克森美孚利润较去年同期翻倍，雪佛龙利润增长180%。另一家大型石油公司英国石油公司（BP）报告称其利润达到18年新高。
Shipping and insurance costs have spiked thanks to the war, allowing oil companies to spike their prices. ExxonMobil and Chevron, the nation’s two largest fossil fuel corporations, saw profits surge. According to quarterly earnings reports released on Friday, ExxonMobil’s profits doubled over the same period last year, while Chevron’s grew by 180 percent. BP, another large oil company, reported its profits reached an 18-year high.
股东们正在赚钱。根据国会民主党人本周发布的一份报告，特朗普总统在石油天然气股票上的个人财富今年增长了多达3580万美元。
Shareholders are making money. President Donald Trump’s personal wealth in oil and gas stocks grew as much as $35.8 million this year, according to a report this week from congressional Democrats.
与此同时，美国民众正在买单——自战争开始以来，美国家庭中位数在加油站的支出比原本多出856美元。
Americans, meanwhile, are paying the price—the median US household has spent $856 more at the gas pump than they otherwise would have since the war started.
据美国汽车协会（AAA）称，2026年第三季度全国汽油平均价格为每加仑4.12美元——比一年前上涨96美分，创下有史以来最高季度价格。
The national average price of gasoline during the third quarter of 2026 was $4.12 a gallon, according to AAA—up 96 cents from a year ago and the highest ever quarterly price.
在竞选途中，特朗普反复试图向美国人保证这是好事：“美国是世界上最大的石油生产国，遥遥领先，所以油价上涨时，我们赚大钱，”特朗普3月在Truth Social上写道，距战争爆发仅一个月。七个月后，他的说辞没有改变。
On the campaign trail, Trump has repeatedly attempted to assure Americans that this is a good thing: “The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in March, just one month into the war. Seven months later, his pitch hasn’t changed.
“我们的国家因为中东发生的事情赚了数千亿美元，因为他们来到得克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州、路易斯安那州，把那些石油拿走，”他在10月24日佐治亚州的一次竞选活动上说。“我才不在乎，我要说——我们赚了他妈的一大笔钱。”
“Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars because of what’s happened in the Middle East, because they’re coming to Texas, and they’re coming to Oklahoma, and they’re coming to Louisiana and they’re taking that oil,” he said at an October 24 campaign event in Georgia. “I don’t give a damn, I’m going to say it—we’re making a freaking fortune.”